Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone whose beautiful voice and mastery of technique made him the 20th century's pre-eminent interpreter of art songs, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria.
As a recitalist he was regarded as a superb interpreter of English art songs, and made recordings of works by Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Stanford, Warlock and Dyson.
The respected interpreter of classical art songs and opera performed for more than five decades primarily on European stages while also touring worldwide and recording extensively.
Among Sontag's most careless propositions, McEvilley cites: "it is possible to elude the interpreters by making works of art... whose address is so direct that the work can be... just what it is".
Mr. Lindall, who was born in Minneapolis and has loved Milton ever since his undergraduate days at Hunter College, can seemingly channel the poet and is a particularly ingenious interpreter both of "Paradise Lost" and of art inspired by it.
I caught up with Rob recently to discuss his work, influences and career achievements, just weeks after the DVD and Blu-Ray release of "Into the Woods," the latest installment of movie musicals he's directed--joining "Chicago" and "Nine --through which he's proveNine --throughderNine --throughter of this critical art form.
In the world of art, he was an explorer, a delver, an interpreter, a clarifier, a great explainer….
Whether he is praised as a very human love poet, as an interpreter of esoteric lore, or as a political critic, his verses have a continuing appeal to all lovers of art and artistry.
For Heidegger, works of art have two equally important sides: their creation (by an artist) and their preservation (by a community of interpreters).
Both through Sept. 7. "Whitfield Lovell: All Things In Time," large-scale survey exhibition showcasing the work of one of the contemporary art world's finest interpreters of lost or contested history.
Herder believes, plausibly, that a work of art is always written or made to exemplify a certain genre, and that it is vitally important for the interpreter to identify its genre in order to understand it.
